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For 7,613 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 62% higher than the average critic
  • 2% same as the average critic
  • 36% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 1.4 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 66
Highest review score: 100 Autumn Tale
Lowest review score: 0 Car 54, Where Are You?
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5,116 out of 7613
  2. Mixed: 1,475 out of 7613
  3. Negative: 1,022 out of 7613
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  1. Joe Gould's Secret
    A wonderful, heart-breaking movie.
  2. Rules of Engagement
    Written with such murderous gravity, certainty and gloomy solemnity - such an absence of real life or feeling - that it tends to kill our interest.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    Return to Me
    These characters deserve more than storybook plotting, as do we. The movie has won our hearts. It shouldn't be so timid about challenging our minds.
  4. Ready to Rumble
    Will come off as insipid, unfunny and too serious at times for its own good.
  5. Me Myself I
    Far too self-absorbed a picture.
  6. Black and White
    There is really no one to like in this film.
    • Chicago Tribune
  7. Price of Glory
    A pretty good film, acted powerfully .
  8. The Road to El Dorado
    It has a jokey irreverence that keeps it from teetering over the edge to absurdity.
  9. The Skulls
    A fast, slick, outlandish fiasco that starts out well and then seems to drop right off a cliff.
  10. Beau Travail
    You may not like Beau Travail - which is, after all, a quintessential "critic's film" - but I think you'll have to admit it's been almost perfectly executed.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 75 Critic Score
    High Fidelity
    Easily cracks the top five list of reasons to go to the movies these days - and defies categories in doing so.
    • Chicago Tribune
  12. Here on Earth
    An almost terminally sappy youth romance.
    • Chicago Tribune
    • 59 Metascore
    • 50 Critic Score
    Waking the Dead
    By the time of Fielding's and Sarah's final, gooey encounter, she's not the only one who needs waking.
  14. The Color of Paradise
    The simplicity and idealism of The Color of Paradise are part of what makes it so attractive to near-jaded palates here. There are no evil characters in the film.
  15. Such a Long Journey
    A cinematic treat, thanks to the well-defined supporting characters, the flawless attention to detail and a performance by the great Roshan Seth - one of the most underrated actors of his generation - which is just about perfect.
    • Chicago Tribune
  16. X
    Could be the most overblown and confusing example of anime yet, as it piles one pretentious story element on top of another.
    • Chicago Tribune
    • 20 Metascore
    • 25 Critic Score
    Whatever It Takes
    So derivative and crass that it's far more entertaining to try to think of the dozens of films it's ripping off than it is to take any of it at face value.
  18. Erin Brockovich
    Takes the raw truth and makes it jubilantly, terrifically entertaining.
    • Chicago Tribune
  19. Beyond the Mat
    Surprisingly lacking in revelatory moments.
    • Chicago Tribune
  20. Final Destination
    Meets the low standards of a mediocre TV movie.
    • Chicago Tribune
  21. Mission to Mars
    One of the most gorgeous science-fiction movies ever - and probably also one of the most realistic in detail and scientific extrapolation
  22. The Ninth Gate
    Elegant, scary fun.
  23. Deterrence
    To say this movie's premise is bonkers is putting it mildly.
    • Chicago Tribune
    • 41 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    What Planet Are You From?
    Shandling and Nichols strain to reach a mainstream audience and wind up sounding like they, too, have been trained to tell us what we want to hear. Sorry, guys, but you don't score.
  25. Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
    It's fun, but not obvious fun.
    • Chicago Tribune
  26. Drowning Mona
    A comedy murder mystery gone seriously astray, boasts an immensely talented cast .
    • Chicago Tribune
  27. The Next Best Thing
    All too obvious, all too easy, the sort of tongue-in-chic L.A. comedy that mistakes glibness for high style, heartfelt pop choruses for wisdom.
  28. 3 Strikes
    Most of the humor is aimed at 14-year-olds.
    • Chicago Tribune
    • 44 Metascore
    • 63 Critic Score
    The Closer You Get
    Like sitting through a rerun of a show you kind of liked.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 88 Critic Score
    Mifune's Last Song
    Shares the characters' off-kilter yet human qualities.
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